Arizona Republican shares false info claiming COVID-19 means 'Chinese Originating' virus

[RandySF]

Scottsdale City Councilmember Guy Phillips shared a private post on Facebook on Sunday claiming that COVID-19, the official name for the disease caused by thenew coronavirus, stands for "Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease."

The post reads: "Hate to break this to all of the morons who call themselves Journalists. COVID literally stands for 'Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease' and the number 19 is due to this being the 19th virus to come out of China."

The name for the disease actually is an abbreviation, with 'CO' for 'corona,' 'VI' for virus,' and 'D' for disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 19 stands for the year 2019, when the virus was first discoveredin Wuhan, China.

The post was originally made by Facebook user Mac McPhe Sunday morningand shared by Phillips later that day.




https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2020/03/22/scottsdale-councilman-shares-false-information-covid-19-meaning/2895909001/?cid=twitter_azcentral

[jberryhill]

1. How do people get that stupid?

[Moostache]

2. Willfully...

They chose to abdicate reason decades ago and never stopped...

Cigarettes don't cause cancer...scientists LIE!
Vaccines don't prevent viral outbreaks....scientists LIE!!
Evolution never happened...scientists LIE!!!
Climate change is not real...scientists LIE!!!!

Fuck them all.
I invite them to continue gargling bleach and demanding treatments with no testing proof...we don't need them around to muck up the rebuild after this catastrophe anyway...

[Walleye]

3. Home schooling?😁

[jberryhill]

4. Good point

[Takket]

5. says a lot about the rethugs........

that while Dems are trying to come up with solutions, the gop is obsessed with politicizing the issue by creating a wedge issue out of the name for the right and left to argue about.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Sadly, half the country will believe him.

[sop]

7. Some people are saying it stands for "Conservative Originated Viral Infectious Disease"

[marble falls]

8. Scottsdale, "the west's most midwestern town".

[captain queeg]

9. Why does it matter dumbasses? It's here, let's deal with it.